Duke Graduate Student Photo selected "Picture of the Day" by NSF

Duke Graduate Student Photo selected "Picture of the Day" by NSF

On October 26, 2010, Jie Ren's photo of stress in a two-dimensional granular material was selected as the "Picture of the Day" by the National Science Foundation. The work leading to the picture was conducted by Jie in Prof. Robert Behringer's laboratory.  As mentioned previously, the photo also won first prize in the Mahato Memorial Scientific Visualization Contest.